"This was a very difficult decision because we had two national federations who did excellent work. However, there can only be one host country for our event in 2019 and it will be China.

We would like to congratulate both national federations for their outstanding work and bids. This is what we wanted: to have national federations put together top quality bids to host our flagship event.

We look forward to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which will be the first of a new era with 140 teams competing during a 15-month qualification period to be among the 32 playing in China."

Based on their presentation, China will host the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in eight different venues in eight different cities: Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Dongguan.

Yao Ming, the Ambassador for the China 2019 bid, headlined the Chinese delegation in Tokyo.

China is also won the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and being set to host the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship this coming September 23 to October 3, 2015 in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province.

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